quotes about death and life

I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All



Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle, rather a beautiful reminder of just how strong true love can be. ~Author Unknown



Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. ~Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera Grand?



If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. ~Josh Billings, His Complete Works, 1888



Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. ~Ambrose Bierce



Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. ~Woody Allen



The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ~Carl Sagan



The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. ~Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., Loose Talk, 1980



Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. ~William Feather



To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. ~Lord Byron



I just hope God does not get bored of dreaming me. ~Author Unknown



To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~Emily Dickinson



Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform? ~Douglas Jerrold



When you gamble with safety, you bet your life. ~Author Unknown



What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth



You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ~Amy Lowell



Be a rebel against gravity: Skip! ~Jessi Lane Adams



History is concerned primarily with human phenomena, not with natural; and history is doubly human because, as an idea, it is man's creation, challenging him to transcend the limits of information about himself and to discover what he is by finding meaning in what he has done. In short, it is man's commentary on man. ~John Barker, The Superhistorians